Kromac vs Vlad1 HARDCORE

A buddy named Nate has been planning to go to Lock & Load this summer, so he's been trying to work through his Hardcore list.  If you aren't familiar with the format, check out the SR2012 PDF.  Anyway, he's been wanting to face off against a beast-heavy list.  I haven't played Kromac a lot (which was painfully obvious when I started this game), but I wanted to throw something at him he'd definitely see.  That means it was time to bust out Will Pagani's Kromac list, which looks like this

Kromac
- Ghetorix
- Feral Warpwolf
- Warpwolf Stalker
- Gorax
- Druid Wilder

Druid Stoneward & Woldstalkers
Druid Stoneward & Woldstalkers
Shifting Stones
- Stone Keeper
Shifting Stones
Swamp Gobbers
Gallows Grove
Gallows Grove

I honestly don't think I could replicate his list off the top of my mind.  It was Vlad1, had Drago, Rifle Corp, 2 units of Doom Reavers (one with UA), the great bears, some mortars, and Aiyana and Holt.  Probably missing some stuff.

The big important thing here is that I decided to play Hardcore via deathclock, meaning that I had 37 minutes to do everything.  Not knowing my list was NOT helping, but he wanted the game and said playing smart was more important (which makes a lot of sense for him).  I deployed basically how you'd expect.

Round 1:

I move up, put Inviolable Resolve on the Feral, that warped for arm.  Cast Bestial and Warpath.

He basically moved up too, put one unit of Doom Reavers right up on a wall, which wasn't helpful.  His rifle corps ran to position, so did his mortar crews, Drago moved up, etc.

Round 2:
Put Sprint and Wild Aggression on the Stalker, he moved in, killed a bunch of doom reavers and got out of there.  The shrimp unsuccessfully did some shooting.  I moved everything up.  Made a massive mistake of getting Ghetorix and the Stalker too close.

Speaking of that.  Vlad feats, moves up casts some spells.  Drago kills both the stalker and ghetorix, he runs the doom reavers up to base with Kromac just about.  Rifle crews kill some of the shrimp.  What he did not do was kill my shifting stones.  Kromac wasn't inside of them though, so that did help.

Round 3:
Here's what needed to happen, and did.  First set of stones teleported the Feral into the other set.  I cast Primal and Wild Aggression on him, along with feating and dropping a boosted Rift onto a solo and blasting his caster some.  Then the other stones teleported the Feral into base with Vlad.  MAT9, boosted attack rolls at POW 18, POW 19 and POW 19 made short work of him.

Analysis:
Definitely glad I played this because now he'll never make the mistake of letting a double teleported beast get in there.  What I learned is that if I'm going to ever play Kromac at a tournament I need to get a lot more time in with him.   Probably won't do that yet.  I'm thinking Baldur and another caster are going to be my main stays for a while.